Well, in the folder I'm most interested in (iTunes music) CMD J only brings up two options (show icons and show preview column--no auto arrange). In the desktop Finder view options, Auto Arrange is not selected.

giulio is mostly right.
icon view AND list view will allow some sort of arranging. Though with list view, you use the header bars at the top of your file lists to determine how they are arranged (very similar to windows explorer).

the other view with preview for whatever reason does not allow for sorting.

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Well, in the folder I'm most interested in (iTunes music) CMD J only brings up two options (show icons and show preview column--no auto arrange). In the desktop Finder view options, Auto Arrange is not selected.

i just assumed he was in preview view - or whatever that's called.

hey... i didn't say you were wrong

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pffft. who gave you + when you got into that little, ehem, incident a while back.

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